Frontend Software Engineer

November 2024 - March 2025

PricerQX, Remote

• Built a user-friendly UI for auto-pricing ticket inventory using React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, improving efficiency by 40%
• Optimized state management with React Query to fetch and cache backend data, enabling efficient reuse across multiple components
• Wrote unit tests with Vitest and React Testing Library, achieving 85% test coverage and increasing code reliability
• Collaborated in an Agile environment, participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives, contributing to a 15% faster release cycle

AI Testing Engineer

June 2023 - August 2023

ScaleAI, Remote

• Created algorithm, system design, and JavaScript prompts based on scenarios from large language models
• Implemented Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) to evaluate and enhance the quality, readability, and completeness of code responses generated by a Large Language Model, leading to improved model accuracy and performance
• Developed meticulously reasoned JavaScript code to illustrate how to effectively guide and elicit responses from the language model through prompts

Certification in Software Engineering

April 2023

App Academy, New York, NY

Immersive software development course with a focus on full stack web development and collaborative programming

Bachelor of Arts in Economics

May 2018

University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Developed strong analytical and problem-solving skills through coursework in microeconomics, statistics, and econometrics

LinkedUp

A LinkedIn cloned social media platform that allows users to create profiles, connect with other users, and share content

Technologies: React, Redux, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, HTML5, CSS3, AWS

• Optimized seamless navigation within application by leveraging React Router for dynamic, conditional rendering based on routes
• Optimized image uploads using AWS S3 for scalable cloud storage, reducing server load and improving application performance
• Implemented responsive design principle, ensuring seamless functionality across devices and screen sizes, resulting in a 80% increase in device coverage and enhanced accessibility

ARTifacts

A MERN stack web application developed with 3 other engineers for users to explore artwork from throughout history

Technologies: React, Redux, Express, MongoDB, Mongoose, HTML5, CSS3, AWS

• Designed and implemented a custom layout and animations using React and CSS, increasing user engagement by 30%
• Utilized Redux for state management, resulting in a 25% improvement in application performance and maintainability
• Implemented JWT for secure authentication and authorization, ensuring efficient user management within web applications
• Collaborated with backend engineer to manage data access through RESTful APIs, ensuring efficient integration of visualizations on the page

The Adventure of Gary the Snail

A 2D interactive puzzle game built with JavaScript, featuring rich animations to enhance engagement and overall user experience

Technologies: Vanilla JavaScript, Canvas API, HTML5, CSS3

• Reduced game lag by repainting necessary tiles during level updates with the Canvas API, improving performance by 35%
• Developed a collision detection system to manage object interactions by calculating their physical interactions